If you look at this series the last 20 years the Badgers have played Ohio State pretty tough including many wins (or close losses) where the Bucks were the better team on paper.
Yes Ohio State has more team speed and athleticism but 59-0? I struggle with that outcome and I hope the players and coaches do as well.
Nothing you can do to change the final score but I hope they take this as motivation and show up against Auburn
Nothing should be surprising. Disappointing, but not surprising. The OL was banged up and their effectiveness limited the last few weeks. The secondary has been suspect in coverage all season. The QB IS average at best.
Against OSU all issues were on display. OSU attacked every weakness.
Against OSU all issues were on display. OSU attacked every weakness.
I'm surprised that the Badgers did not look capable at any position at any time.
Only one way to answer the critics- prove against Auburn it was just a bad performance by a good team. Go Nebraska on their ass and leave no doubts. Getting healthy is an important first step.
Agree. But why...why can't UW recruit a top QB? All these years....just serviceable QB's....I don't get it....
Why don't we do what O$U does? Just tell the recruit they do not have to go to class. A tutor will do their work and turn in their papers.
Originally Posted by SanDiegoPackFan:
Agree. But why...why can't UW recruit a top QB? All these years....just serviceable QB's....I don't get it....
Why don't we do what O$U does? Just tell the recruit they do not have to go to class. A tutor will do their work and turn in their papers.
Whether we'd define them as serviceable at best, the Badgers have sent three QBs they developed to the NFL in the last decade or so. Brooks Bollinger, Jim Sorgi,and Scott Tolzein were all thought of highly enough to hang around for several years as clipboard holders. They weren't great, but you'd think high school kids seeing that would look at that as a positive.
The fact that Russell Wilson came for a year and really established himself as an NFL prospect should have been a positive too.
It's puzzling why a QB who wants to eventually play in the NFL wouldn't want to come and play behind NFL quality linemen and have the best potential play-action passing attack in the country.
We've also had 7 WRs and 5 TEs play in the NFL in the last decade.
good points. I guess I'm just frustrated that since Wilson left, we are still trying to find a QB....
Now I wonder how long the now ex-coach of the Badgers was working on a deal to take the Oregon St. job. Maybe this explains the lack of focus, attention, and preparation? A 59-0 defeat is not fully explained by the head guy actively looking for another gig instead of leading and preparing the team for the Big Ten title game...but it may help explain that situation.
Will Alvarez coach the team in a bowl game for the second time in 3 years?
For the time being--never mind quarterbacks. Wisconsin need to do a better job of getting better coaches.
That would be a fan trying to rationalize an ass kicking.
AS I SAID, maybe the head coach having already thrown in the towel before the game and having his attention elsewhere (and maybe a few close top staffers too?) might HELP EXPLAIN what appeared to be a complete lack of preparation, focus, and attention for a conference title game.
AS I SAID, that would be a fan trying to rationalize an ass kicking
If you type it in caps, it becomes even more profound.
Well...you both can be right. I don't think anything can explain the ass-kicking. But I don't think dudeman was rationalizing the defeat either. But for a team to shut out the Badgers offense like that raised many an eye-brow not only in BuckyLand but a lot of talking heads.
I will agree that O$U completely dominated the Badgers and we were out of their league on the field that night. However, something just didn't "seem right" while watching the team play. I, too, noticed a lack of passion of matching up the intensity.
I think dudeman does make a valid point. How much was it a distraction to the players? Who knows? But, someone knew something was up in that week of practice.
It'll be interesting to hear the real scoop once all the dust settles.
Some people's reading comprehension skills are for sh!t.
ANYWAY, 59-0 in a so-called championship game was mind-boggling. Teams Wisconsin beat had played Ohio State way more competitively.
Something had to have been up and I wonder if this might've been part of it.
You have to go back 120 years in Wisconsin football history to the late 19th century to find a worse loss than 59-0.
Originally Posted by dudeman9000:
Something had to have been up
Exactly. It is unfathomable for a Badger fan to accept that the Badgers got their asses handed to them by a better team, in simply demoralizing fashion. Impossible that not having a QB all season would catch up to them when they faced one of the top 4 teams in the nation, that this game got out of hand fast, and that our **** QB played about as bad as he could. The only reasonable explanation is that Anderson was so personally distanced already from the program that the entire team was practically in mourning on gameday. Clearly the passion was down, the moxy was lacking, their spirit wounded, all replaced by apathy and lethargy because GA considering a different job permeated each player to such an extreme level.
Or they got their asses kicked. But what do I know, my READING COMPREHENSION is ****.
THIS IS TAKING ATTENTION AWAY FROM MY UWM GAME THREAD.
Hateful.
